Let's say I have a really big file (>100MB) that consists of length-prefixed blocks, i.e. the first byte of each byte block indicates the length of the rest of the block. This is a simplified example ...

At the moment, I am producing various complicated interactive plots. They all share a common "code base", with modifications on top of it.
I would like to refactor my code so that the various files ...

When i try to load packages on this computer, i get an error (i already know the packages work). I think the issue might be to do with the fact that mathematica can't process the network drives, some ...

I have a large folder of existing notebooks, each currently containing a single cell of input. I would like --- in each of these notebooks --- to evaluate that cell, evaluate a new chunk of code I've ...

Is there a common way in which environment variables are accessed, stored, or used by the kernel?
There are built-in functions for querying and setting vars in the system environment, but there are ...

I need to rename a list of files .bmp having name like 1.bmp, 2.bmp,...,155.bmp. I want to get a list of files having the same number of digits in name like 001.bmp,002.bmp....,155.bmp.
I am trying ...

Suppose I want to Save["filename", foo] under Windows. Ordinarily, the way to deal with file names under windows is to open the Insert dialogue and find a file path, but in this use case, the file is ...

I am trying to find the list of any file in any directory of a given name (by in the directory, I mean directly in the directory, so in a directory which is in the directory would not count). For the ...

I have several hundreds of .csv files that are not logically named (contains numbers, characters, and special characters), all stored in a directory. Each file has large but unequal number of rows and ...

I have 3000 files (for example: aa101.csv, aa108.csv, aa120.csv, ...) and I need to process them. I need to load five files from a folder, process them, and export them to new list in Excel. Then I ...

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